The Civic Network: A Comparative Study of the Use of Social Media for Enhancing Young People's Political Engagement, Australia, United Kingdom, & United States, 2013 (ICPSR 37023)

Citation

Vromen, Ariadne, Xenos, Michael Andrew, and Loader, Brian. The Civic Network: A Comparative Study of the Use of Social Media for Enhancing Young People’s Political Engagement, Australia, United Kingdom, & United States, 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-05-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37023.v1

This collection explores how the use of online technologies relates to young peoples' political activity and whether such technology use differs according to social background. These issues are examined in three countries: Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The comparative project asks questions about how differing national contexts relate to youth culture and to civic motivations and behaviors. The study builds on and extends single-country cases or multi-country survey research that uses narrow and standardized measures.

Vromen, Ariadne, Xenos, Michael Andrew, and Loader, Brian. The Civic Network: A Comparative Study of the Use of Social Media for Enhancing Young People’s Political Engagement, Australia, United Kingdom, & United States, 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-05-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37023.v1

A nationally representative sample of young people in Australia, United Kingdom, and the United States systematically recruited from online panels to create samples that mirrored census data in each country, resulting in a combined total of 3,887 observations.

2018-05-04 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Created online analysis version with question text.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

This study is maintained and distributed by Civic Learning, Engagement, and Action Data Sharing (CivicLEADS). CivicLEADS provides infrastructure for researchers to share and access high-quality datasets to study civic education, civic action, and the relationships between the two.